A rather complex set of circumstances involving the family, two cars and the need for daughter to visit aunt; all combined to precipitate me into a Slough hotel last night after seeing Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera at the ROH. One should never see Verdi immediately after the ecstasy of Wagner and one should avoid the Slough […]
Front-line managers and supervisors practically spend their entire working day on the Ordered Side. I surmise that the time split between the Complicated and Simple Domains is in the 20/80 range respectively. Everyday operational decisions primarily require Management by Intuition – relying on established habits and past experiences to get the job done. As we […]
Several of you probably have come across the posting’s title or a variation of it. Today’s topic of interest is about paradigms and paradigm shifts. From Wikipedia: “The word [paradigm] has come to refer very often now to a thought pattern in any scientific discipline or other epistemological context.” …Since the 1960s, the term [paradigm […]
Some time ago I concluded that we have entered a new era, where many theories rooted in reductionism have maximised their limits of usefulness in supporting further innovation. Kuhn’s paradigm shift [1] is once again upon us – not just in an abstract sense, but in the very way we see the world operating around […]
“For to say that, assuming the earth moves and the sun stands still, all the appearances are saved better than with eccentrics and epicycles, is to speak well; there is no danger in this, and it is sufficient for mathematicians. But to want to affirm that the sun really is fixed in the center of […]
I have recorded below a list serve conversation about the knowledge economy for those who are interested. In it I have argued against idealistic approaches to forecasting and talking about the future and argued instead for multiple small safe-fail experiments. Its not a complete document, but it has some basic thinking. THE ORIGINAL QUESTION ==================================== […]
Verna Allee responded to my request for help with some interesting reflections on high abstraction languages. She specifically raised examples from Meg Wheatley and the Dillema Theory of Charles Hampden-Turner. My response covers issues on archetypes and high abstraction language,and some of my concerns at therapy based approaches to organisational studies and the way in […]
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